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2016 NEWS

Dr. L was honored to be chosen as the imechanica Journal Club author for December.  Read her entry here.
12.2016
Dr. L helps organize MB2 Symposium: Materials Under Mechanical Extremes at the MRS Conference in Boston with Professors Avinash Dongare (UConn), Irene Beyerlein (UCSB), and Jaafar El-Awady (JHU) - including 4 days of 72 presentations with 21 invited speakers from all over the world!
12.2016
DMML's Logan presents his latest DIC dynamic fracture investigations at the 2016 iDIC Conference at Workshop right in Philadelphia.  
 11.2016
DMML's Dr. L and Pete travel to Phoenix, AZ to present and chair sessions at the 2016 IMECE conference.  
 11.2016
Dr. L travels to Grenoble, France to give an invited lecture to Professor Pascal Forquin's research group, 3SR, as well as attend and present at 2016 the DYMAT and LWAG international conferences.
10.2016
Dr. L travels to the University of Maryland, College Park, to attend and present at the 2016 SES conference.
 10.2016
Dr. L's travels to Brown University to help celebrate her PhD Advisor's milestone and present at a mechanics conference in his honor - Happy 60th Birthday Professor Rosakis!   
10.2016
Dr. L  creates a movie trailer highlighting the exciting work being done by colleagues across the globe for the Dynamic Behavior of Materials Technical Division of the Society for Experimental Mechanics.  Check it out here
 10.2016
Dr. L's NSF REU Program on Energy and the Environment comes to a successful end - special thanks to our DMML REU team member, Connor, for the excellent work on basalt!
 08.2016
DMML was featured in Drexel's Research Magazine EXCEL 2016 Issue  - read "The Breaking Point" here.  
 07.2016
Dr. L was awarded the Hayashi Memorial International Award at the 17th US-Japan Conference on Composite Materials at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.  Such a humbling honor- many thanks to the amazing US and Japanese researchers who made it possible!
 08.2016
DMML hosts the 1st US-based and 4th ever DIC Intensive Workshop at Drexel in collaboration with Prof. Fabrice Pierron (USouthampton), Prof. Pascal Lava (KU Leuven), and Dr. Phillip Reu (Sandia National Lab) to help teach metrology of using digital image correlation (DIC).   It was an honor to partner with these experts & a good time to boot!  http://diccourse.matchid.org
 06.2016
Logan wins the 2016 SEM Student Paper Competition - CONGRATULATIONS LOGAN!
 06.2016
DMML is getting new faces for the summer:  Welcome aboard Richard Tredinnick (BS/MS, Hess Scholar),  Luke Hanner (STAR program), Connor Williams (NSF-REU Program), and Annabel Young (high school STEM)
 05.2016
Logan just passed his PhD proposal today, presenting Dynamic Fracture of using a Hybrid Experimental-Computational Method.  Congratulations!
 05.2016
DMML's collaboration with soceer gear company Storelli Inc. was featured in a Drexels COE news.  
check out the article here
 04.2016
DMML's Steve just received The George Hill, Jr. Endowed Fellowship in MEM at Drexel, and Logan was invited to participate in the Society of Experimental Mechanic's (SEM) Student Paper Competition this June AND a DOD SMART Scholarship- well done- Go team DMML!
 03.2016
Dr. L was awarded the PC Chu Endowed Assistant Professorship in MEM at Drexel.  
 02.2016
DMML's Steven Pagano gives Drexel's Mechanics of Materials Seminar on Bone and Bone Surrogate Fragmentation and Flaw Evolution under Compression
 01.2016
Dr. L has been invited join the Scientific Committee of the British Society for Strain Measurement (BSSM) 11th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics, to be held at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, from 5th to 7th September 2016.
 02.2016
DMML's has a new Undergraduate HESS Research Scholar- Welcome Jacqueline!  
 01.2016

2015 NEWS

Dr. L is happy to announce that she is now an Associate Technical Editor for The Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Material in 2016
12.2015
DMML's Logan Shannahan is featured in Drexel's College of Engineering Student Highlights 
check the article out here
12.2015
Dr. L is now a part of the Society of Experimental Mechanics' (SEM) 75th Anniversary Planning Commitee, chaired by Prof. Subhash Ghatu
 
12.2015
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